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Dear BI Career Consultants:What new pressures will community colleges experience when remediation is removed from four-year institutions?Dr. James Anderson, vice provost for undergraduate affairs and professor of counselor education, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, N.C.Today, a significant number of students who attend college need remedial courses. About one-third of the nation’s first-time, full-time freshmen in […]
Leadership & Policy
Community Colleges, Historically Black Institutions Sign Pact to Ease Student Transition
Community Colleges, Historically Black Institutions Sign Pact to Ease Student Transition By Ronald RoachWASHINGTON Leading higher education officials, including the presidents of the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) and the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC), have signed on to the first national articulation agreement between community colleges and historically Black […]
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Enrollment Up, Retention Rates Down for Minorities in Connecticut Colleges
Enrollment Up, Retention Rates Down for Minorities in Connecticut CollegesHARTFORD, Conn.Connecticut’s colleges are enrolling Black and Hispanic students at record rates, but fail to keep many of them in the classroom, say state education officials. Minority students also are concentrated at lower-level programs such as two-year colleges, the Department of Higher Education said in an […]
Leadership & Policy
As Admissions Standards Rise, Southern University Prepares for Falling Enrollment
As Admissions Standards Rise, Southern University Prepares for Falling Enrollment Desegregation settlement mandates selective admissions for some of Louisiana’s public collegesBy Scott DyerBATON ROUGE, La.Officials at Southern University’s Baton Rouge campus are bracing for a 27 percent drop in freshman enrollment this fall when the historically Black school raises admissions standards.Southern University Chancellor Edward  R. […]
Latinx
Bush Budget Includes Gains for HBCUs, Pell Grants
Bush Budget Includes Gains for HBCUs, Pell GrantsHistorically Black colleges and universities, along with Hispanic-serving institutions, are in line for moderate funding gains under President Bush’s education budget for 2002.A bare-bones budget plan for the Department of Education calls for a 6.4 percent increase for these minority-serving institutions next year. While specific funding allotments were […]
Community Colleges
Two-Year Schools in Washington Hit Enrollment High
Two-Year Schools in Washington Hit Enrollment HighSEATTLE Community college and technical school enrollment in Washington state reached an all-time high last fall with more than a quarter of a million students, a new report indicates. The report, which was presented last month to the State Board for Community and Technical Colleges, also says more students […]
Community Colleges
Gore to Teach at Fisk University, Columbia, UCLA, Middle Tennessee State University
Gore to Teach at Fisk University, Columbia, UCLA, Middle Tennessee State UniversityWashingtonFrom politician to professor, former Vice President Al Gore has a series of professorial duties on the horizon. Among them, the Tennessee native’s first plan is to lead a series of lectures at Fisk, a historically Black university in Nashville. From his position at […]
Community Colleges
Community Colleges Trying to Recruit and Retain Teachers
Community Colleges Trying to Recruit and Retain TeachersPHOENIX Community colleges are answering a statewide teacher shortage with an effort to recruit, prepare and retain teachers. In response to the shortage, the Maricopa Community College District has formed the Teacher Education Partnership Commission — composed of 32 education, government and business leaders. “The ultimate goal is […]
Community Colleges
Student Aid Issues at Forefront for New Congress
Student Aid Issues at Forefront for New CongressOne of the first bills introduced in the 107th Congress, H.R. 124, calls for full funding of Pell Grants to provide the maximum benefit to all needy students. The plan from Rep. Ric Keller, R-Fla., was immediately referred to the House Education and the Workforce Committee, which sets […]
Community Colleges
Community Colleges to Get “.Edu” Extensions Under New Domain Administration in 2001
Community Colleges to Get “.Edu” Extensions Under New Domain Administration in 2001 The federal agency that oversees the administration of Internet domain names says it expects to hand over control of the “.edu” domain extension to a new subcontractor as early as spring 2001. The change of subcontractors would make it possible for community colleges […]
Community Colleges
Transfer Rankings Embarrass Two-Year Colleges On California List
Transfer Rankings Embarrass Two-Year Colleges On California ListLOS ANGELES California’s community college system targeted 14 of 107 two-year colleges for having the worst record for transferring students to state universities. More than half of them are in the Los Angeles area. The California Community Colleges list angered many of the schools whose administrators see it […]
Faculty & Staff
What Are Think Tanks Thinking About?
What Are Think Tanks  Thinking About?And are they thinking enough about minorities and higher education?By Eleanor Lee Yates“C olleges would be great places to work if there were no students,” or so goes the age-old joke among college research professors. Long considered coveted respites as well as invaluable institutions for lawmakers and other information hungry […]
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